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This text contains three poems; an Irish one, and two contemporary translations of the same; one into English, the other into Latin.
Manuscript sources
Göttingen, Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. Ms. hist. 773, written by Irish Franciscan Anthony O'Conor in the Francisan College in Prague, 1659. [Thanks are due to Frau Bärbel Mund of the Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek for supplying catalog details.]
Secondary literature
R. B. McDowell, 'The problem of religious dissent in Ireland, 1660–1740'. Bulletin, Irish Committee of Historical Sciences 40 (1945).Jane H. Ohlmeyer (ed.), Ireland from independence to occupation 1641–1660 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1995).Joep Leerssen, Mere Irish and Fíor-Ghael: studies in the idea of Irish nationality, its development and literary expression prior to the nineteenth century (Critical Conditions: Field Day Essays, Cork University Press 1996).Jane H. Ohlmeyer 'The civil wars in Ireland'. In: John Philipps Kenyon; Jane H. Ohlmeyer (eds.), The civil wars: a military history of England, Scotland, and Ireland 1638–1660 (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1998) 73–102.Micheál Ó Siochrú, Confederate Ireland 1642–1649: a constitutional and political analysis. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1998.Jane H. Ohlmeyer (ed.). Political thought in seventeenth-century Ireland: kingdom or colony. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press in association with the Folger Institute, Washington, DC, 2000.Pádraig Lenihan, Confederate Catholics at War 1641–49, Cork: Cork University Press, 2001.Michelle O'Riordan, Irish Bardic Poetry and Rhetorical Reality (Cork 2007).
The edition used in the digital edition
Rudolf ThurneysenLa lamentation d'IrlandeRevue Celtique14ParisÉmile Bouillon1893153–162

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The electronic text represents the edited text. The ae ligature (with or without fada) has been rendered ae; f with overdot dot has been rendered fh in the electronic text. In the English translation, wth was expanded in the electronic text.

By an unknown Irish poet.
c. 1650 to 1659The first poem is in Classical Modern Irish, but the spelling is faulty.The first translation is in seventeenth-century English.The second translation is in Neolatin.Thurneysen's introduction and two footnotes are in French.2008-08-24Beatrix Färbered.File proofed (2); file parsed. SGML and HTML files created.2009-08-22Beatrix Färbered.Whole file proofed (1), header inserted.2009-08-21Beatrix Färberdata capture/ed.Introduction and Irish poem typed in and encoded.2009-08-18Miriam Trojerdata capture/ed.English and Latin text typed in and encoded.